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18th September 2017NEW POST: A blog reader has explored his ancestors from Earlston - David Swanston, post runner and his grandson William Swanston, who was the official photographer for the visit of Prime Minister Asquith in 1908. Read more HERE

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3rd September 2017NEW POST: A contribution from a blog reader, exploring the background to his early Earlston ancestors - the Hunter family of blacksmiths and the Young family of joiners. You will find it HERE. ________________________________________________________________

7th August 2017NEW POST: Robert Carter was the young Earlston lad who emigrated to America and became a successful New York publisher. Part One of his story focused on his memories of growing up in Earlston.

Here in Part Two, we look at his arrival in New York, his career and family life and his happy recollections of making return visits to his childhood home.

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24th July 2017NEW POST - Take a look HERE at our latest blog post on Earlston's Historic Bridges, with photographs and postcards from our Archive Collection.

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12th July 2017NEW POST - Earlston
born Robert Ewing Carter (1807-1889) emigrated to the USA in 1831 and
became the founder and head of Carter Brothers, a well known New York
Publishers.Read a fascinating account HERE of his hard childhood, working at the loom and on the farm; walking 25-30 miles to work in Peebles and study in Edinburgh, his love of books and his stark account of witnessing an execution.

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21st June 2017NEW POST- Take a look HERE to see some examples of the range of archive material gathered in the five years of the group's history.

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8th June 2017NEW POST -An Earlston mole-catcher, Stweart Paterson (1832-1908), made a good living from his trade and also built the Church Street property at the East End of the village. Read about him in our latest post HERE.

NEW POST - Take a look at a cartoon view of Earlston High Street, penned in the early 20th century - HERE on our latest blog post .

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8th May 2017

NEW POST Earlston's village blacksmiths is the topic of our latest blog postat https://auldearlston.blogspot.co.uk Thanks are due to
the work of Dr. Donald Straughan,
whose ancestor was blacksmith Alexander
Scott. Dr. Straughan also looked at other local families in the trade
by the names of Aitken, Dickson, Lee, Sudden, Waldie and Wilkie. Do read on!

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25th April 2017NEW POST - a second look at Earlston's musical talents with photographs from Earlston Girls' Club "Simple Simon" production and the Earlston Kinderspiel (children's shows) in the early 1900's. Click HERE

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6th April 2017 NEW POST - A light-hearted look on our latest post at Earlston's Got Talent, with photographs of concerts and shows, spanning nearly 100 years. See https://auldearlston.blogspot.co.uk

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22nd March 2017NEW POST -In the 1860's Christopher
Sanderson of Earlston was a successful businessman, a master grocer who
built a substantial block of properties at the corner of West Green. Yet
he left this behind to become a farmer and ended up in court
charged with arson. Read all about him in the latest
article on our blog at https://auldearlston.blogspot.co.uk

14th March 2017NEW POST - What was occupying the columns of "The Earlston Comet", a new newspaper first published in 1891. Find out in our latest blog post at https://auldearlston.blogspot.co.uk

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25th February 2017

NEW POST- Our latest post looks at the fascinating information to be found in Earlston Kirk Session Records. They provide us with a unique social commentary on life at the time - with the emphasis on charity and chastisement, as the church provided hlp to the poor and needy, but censure to those involved in "moral turpitude". Read on at: https://auldearlston.blogspot.co.uk

New Post: Find out how Earlston in 1931 became the first place
in Berwickshire to have an aerodrome and the excitement of local people in seeing an air
display there - the topic of our latest
post on our blog at https://auldearlston.blogspot.co.uk.

7th January 2017New Post:Our latest post HEREfeatures aprofile of DoctorJohn Young, who served the Earlston community and beyond for over fifty years. ___________________________________________________________________